If they tested positive, they were to be offered assistance. The essay, entitled € There Ought to be a Law € , was written by then 16 year-old high school student RJ Field. A law that would require welfare recipients to undergo random drug testing. If they refused or fail to become sober, their benefits will be taken away.

It won an essay competition sponsored by former state Assemblyman € now Republican California State Senator € Mordecai Benoit. Leave a reply A year ago, an essay written by a young lad born with cerebral palsy became the basis for a proposed legislation that called for conducting random drug testing for welfare beneficiaries. Young RJ Field was clear about what he wanted. What made the essay persuasive to the point of it being instrumental to the drafting of a law was that its The law has been dubbed as € RJ € Law €. Should RJ € Law Ought to be a Law.

RJ Field grew up with adoptive parents Jenine Myrta and Emery Field, but his biological mother was a heroin addict on welfare who left him in the hospital immediately after.